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US Defense Secretary warns of 'tough fight' to oust Islamic State

Last month the military chief of France, which has troops in the US alliance fighting IS, estimated the jihadists would lose their last Syrian territory by January. Francois Lecointre predicted "the end of the physical caliphate of Daesh before the end of the year, probably late autumn", using another name for IS.

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